KARACHI, June 29: Eight people, including three young friends, were killed on Sunday in different traffic tragedies, police and hospital sources said.

Three young men were killed and three others injured when their Suzuki pick-up was hit by a fast-moving dumper near the Submarine Chowrangi.

The bodies and the injured were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where the dead were identified as Kamran, 28, Sajid, 25 and Nasir 23.

Hospital sources said the injured – Azhar, 30, Sohail, 25, and Khurrum, 25 – were discharged from the facility as they were in stable condition.

Police said the victims, residents of Bihar Colony, Lyari, were friends and they were on their way to Dau Darya near Seaview beach for fishing and picnicking.

The police said the dumper driver, Nasarullah, was booked and arrested and his vehicle was also impounded.

A rickshaw driver and his passenger were killed in an accident on the Northern Bypass.

The dead were brought to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where the victims remained unidentified.

Manghopir police said the rickshaw was destroyed after a fast-moving dumper rammed it.

They said the dumper (TKG 920) was impounded and efforts were being made to track down its absconding driver.

A 30-year-old man was killed and his sister and her two children were injured in a road accident on Khyaban-i-Jami.

Edhi sources said the victims were on their way on a bike when they were knocked down by a fire tender.

Defence police, however, said the victim’s motorbike hit a pole after it went out of his control.

The body and the injured were taken to the JPMC, where the dead was identified as Iqbal, resident of Altaf Town, Korangi, and his injured sister as Shazia, 20.

A seven-year-old girl was run over by a fast-moving dumper in Sector 11-D of New Karachi.

Sources said the dumper driver fled the scene and the onlookers set the killing dumper on fire. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where the deceased was identified as Kulsom.

Sources said the girl was on her way to his father’s shop to deliver him lunch when she was crushed to death. An unknown man was killed after he was hit by an express train in Landhi.

His body was taken to the JPMC, where sources said the victim was in his early 30s.

Police said the man was crossing the tracks when the Zakaria Express hit him.